Category:Macro-moths of Great Britain

"Macro-moth" is a traditional, non-systematic division of Lepidoptera, largely representing moth families which have fewer traits of the earliest members of the order. As the name suggests these families tend to include the larger moths which are usually easier to identify. A number of families such as the Hepialidae and Zygaenidae are much closer related to traditional micro-moth families than the bulk of macro-moths.

In Great Britain there has been an active tradition of recording and collecting these moths (together with butterflies) for several centuries, and much of the literature is concerned with this group to the exclusion of micro-moths.